2015 is coming to an end and our exhibition Re Rag Rug has travelled
from Hong Kong via Borås to Paris - and we with it. Re Produced, our
smaller exhibition that focuses on social and sustainable production,
exhibited at GFK Gallery in Visby.

What we call 'Mackarånger' (Macka Swe. for sub+macarons) made out of
wollen sweaters are decoration the walls at landmark coffeeshop/bakery
Vetekatten in Stockholm and a version of the rug Off Pist, embroidered
out of old white t-shirts, is at Lane Crawford in Hong Kong.

Jothi and Chitra in India keep producing the braided rugs which have
been exhibited and found their way to Singapore, London, New York and
San Fransisco.

Re Rag Rug has been featured in a number of geographically wide spread
magazines, not the least in the book Upcyclist, by Antonia Edwards, UK.
We have lectured various places and recently recieved the news that Re
Rag Rug is nominated to a design award in Germany.

On a warm and magical summer evening in the beginning of November,
our exhibition opened at the Swedish Institute in Paris. In the Marais
neighbourhood, Hotel Le Marle houses the twelve original rugs until 10th
Paril next year.

It is truly an honour that our rugs are there
in Paris, representing during the COP21 conference in Paris. The
exhibition are part of the Swedish Institutions activities Grön Attitude!.

We have put the last stitches on our textile piece to ACE Hotel in Pittsburgh.
It is specially designed for the hotel and inspired by our original rug
Aquarelle, made of woollen sweaters in appplicue and embroidery.

Ace Hotel Pittsburgh makes its home in a century-old former YMCA building at the heart of East Liberty, set to open late 2015.

Out
of three finalists in this category our rugs Re Orient and Squeeze are
selected. Both these rugs will be exhibited during the carpet fair
Domotex in Hannover in January, when the winner will be announced.

The last month we have been busy working with a specific piece of textile for the main altar in Uppsala Cathedral. During mass last Sunday, the second of advent, it was inaugurated in an atmosphere of solemnity.

In
the motif, we wanted to integrate shapes from the surrounding
architeture with its arches, pillars and the starry skyes in the chapel
of Mary behind the altar (where Gustav Vasa is burried).

The piece
is made from discarded wollen sweaters, which we think bring additional
value to it - apart from the concrete challenge to transform a dull and
wasted material into something shiny and bright.A material that
once was considered worthless is now adorning the most central place in
the cathedral and brightens up this darkest time of year. Something
destined to be burnt is now blessed and will be carefully taken care of
and used two weeks before Christmas - who knows for how many years to
come? This is an aspect of sustainability that cannot be ignored today.

The past month we have been working on a commission for the Cathedral in Uppsala. Today, the second of advent the liturgical textile piece for the main altar was used for the first time and inaugurated during mass.

In the motif we wanted to integrate shapes from the surrounding architecture; the form of the arches, the reliefs on the pillars and the blue starry sky seen behind in the Maria chapel (where Gustav Vasa is burried).The main form is the star of Bethlehem, also carved into a biblical scene on one of the pillars in the church- it was a special request that the star was mart of the design. The color should be blue accorinng to the lithurgical colours of the season, and the pice should also work with a blue chasuble, stoles and other textiles composed in 2011 by Erika Pekkari. Katarina Evans was involved with producing these textiles also where she embroidered the designs on the specifically died swollen fabric.The piece we made is made out of wasted wollen sweaters, which we think add furthter values to the textile - apart from the very cocrete challege to give the dull and worthless material brigthness and lustre. To see a material considered worthless transformed into something that should decorate one of the most central places in this magnificent cathedral during the darkest time of year is fantastic! Something broken and thrown away to be burnt, is now blessed and will in the future be carefully looked after, just to be placed on the main alter during two weeks before Christmas- for decades to come? Here and now this is an aspect of sustainability that we cannot ignore.